Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Haunch-Shaped Plaque

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Description

Faience

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Blue faience haunch-shaped plaque fragment, shown in profile, with the object broken and missing portions. No clear iconography or readable inscription is visible on the photographed surface.

The image shows a small, irregularly shaped blue faience object with a rounded base tapering toward a protruding end, consistent with a haunch-shaped plaque profile. The surface is weathered with chips and flaking, and a brownish accretion appears along breaks/edges. The top/upper area has a raised ridge-like form, but there are no clearly defined figures, deities, or hieroglyphic signs visible in the provided view. The background is plain gray; no additional marks, cartouches, or text are readable.

decorative New Kingdom (Ramesside period), per catalogue ground truth; exact period uncertain from image alone fragmentary
Materials blue faience

Connections

Found at Asasif
Royals Ramesses IV

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116388163 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 16.10.118 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 549326 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.